Wasted and Bombed: Clinical Enactments of a Changing Relationship to the Earth

Bodnar, Susan

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“…In a psychoanalytic and socio-political frame, Žižek (2010) suggests that humanity has begun to grieve the demise of the economic, social and ecological environments (as per the Kubler-Ross model). Psychologist, Bodnar (2008) parallels the self-degrading, risk-taking and sensation seeking behaviour revealed in a study of a group of young North American college students with the degraded condition of nature, where the actions and attitudes of the former are linked to the (worsening) state of the latter. Also harking from Psychology, Louv (2005) introduced the 'nature-deficient disorder', as a way to describe the growing gap between children and nature in 'western' societies, while drawing links between being alienated from nature and higher rates of physical and emotional illness.…”

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Living with the Anthropocene blues

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2015

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“…This is a huge burden of responsibility for the Gimi people. Such studies suggest that a range of different peoples endure ecological death anxieties (cf Bodnar, 2008).…”

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Living with the Anthropocene blues

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Shaw

2015

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“…Psychoanalysis can do much to help unmask the anxieties, deficits, conflicts, phantasies, and defenses crucial in understanding the human dimension of the ecological crisis (Bigda-Peyton, 2004; Randall, 2005; Morton, 2007; Žižek, 2007; Bodnar, 2008; Rust, 2008). Yet, psychoanalysis still largely remains not only a “psychology without biology,” which neuropsychoanalysis seeks to remedy, but also a “psychology without ecology.” This is the role ecopsychoanalysis seeks to fulfill.…”

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“…If we broaden Winnicott’s “holding environment” to include the holding environment of the Earth, we can understand how realizing the enormity of the crisis can threaten psychological disintegration and collapse. Furthermore, not only is environmentally damaging behavior a form of addiction (e.g., consumer items functioning as Kohutian selfobjects to shore up a fragile self, Kohut, 1985; Winnicott, 1987, 1999), but addictions can also arise to deal with anxiety concerning our damaged world as discussed by Susan Bodnar (2008). Psychoanalysts need to recognize engagement with ecology is not only for “applied” psychoanalysis, but is crucial to its core clinical domain.…”

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Minding the Ecological Body: Neuropsychoanalysis and Ecopsychoanalysis

Dodds

2013

Front. Psychol.

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Neuropsychoanalysis explores experimentally and theoretically the philosophically ancient discussion of the relation of mind and body, and seems well placed to overcome the problem of a “mindless” neuroscience and a “brainless” psychology and psychotherapy, especially when combined with a greater awareness that the body itself, not only the brain, provides the material substrate for the emergent phenomenon we call mind. However, the mind-brain-body is itself situated within a complex ecological world, interacting with other mind-brain-bodies and the “non-human environment.” This occurs both synchronically and diachronically as the organism and its environment (living and non-living) interact in highly complex often non-linear ways. Psychoanalysis can do much to help unmask the anxieties, deficits, conflicts, phantasies, and defenses crucial in understanding the human dimension of the ecological crisis. Yet, psychoanalysis still largely remains not only a “psychology without biology,” which neuropsychoanalysis seeks to remedy, but also a “psychology without ecology.” Ecopsychoanalysis (Dodds, 2011b; Dodds and Jordan, 2012) is a new transdisciplinary approach drawing on a range of fields such as psychoanalysis, psychology, ecology, philosophy, science, complexity theory, esthetics, and the humanities. It attempts to play with what each approach has to offer in the sense of a heterogeneous assemblage of ideas and processes, mirroring the interlocking complexity, chaos, and turbulence of nature itself. By emphasizing the way the mind-brain-body studied by neuropsychoanalysis is embedded in wider social and ecological networks, ecopsychoanalysis can help open up the relevance of neuropsychoanalysis to wider fields of study, including those who are concerned with what Wilson (2003) called “the future of life.”

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“…Perhaps we have Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to thank for that; regardless of the reasons, it is a topic we can no longer afford to ignore. Signs of this shift are evidenced by several new initiatives and projects: the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of West of England's two recent conferences, ''Facing Climate Change'' in 2009 and ''INSIDE OUT: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on our Environmental Crisis'' in 2010; a web seminar on psychoanalysis and the environment convened in the Spring 2010 by the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; and several new and exciting research projects emerging at the interface of psychoanalytic research, environmental concerns and broader socio-political contexts (eg, Randall, 2005Randall, , 2009Bodnar, 2008;Lertzman, 2008Lertzman, , 2010Hoggett, 2009;Weintrobe, 2009).…”

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